[Taffy]

Sadly, the rough few can often overpower the greater good. In our last house before we left the UK, we had some fantastic neighbours but there were just 2 families in the street whos teenagers thought it was their God given right to terrorize the whole neighbourhood, causing endless damage to property and being vicious to anyone who dare cross their path, including our then 4 year old daughter.

At the moment, there's a fair amount of the late teen generation who's idea of cool is to be a ganster, tag everything (graffiti their names) and drive 'old skool' cars and generally be a real pain. In the UK it was always put down to boredom, lack of jobs etc etc. I think here it is the opposite, where jobs are so easy to come by that there's no sense of committment to hold down a good job and get on with leading a good life. To them it seems the laid back lifestyle is equating to mean 'no meaning in life'.

I've never yet run in to any problems with such people, because the hell we lived through in the UK has tought me to be suspicious before all else, which is really quite sad. Between 2010 and 2015 there's estimated to be 125,000 people per year leaving the workforce in NZ, due to the baby boomers retiring. With the younger generation with no direction, it does make me wonder just who's going to step in to replace the loss. Most of the western world will be facing the same problem, so it wont be from immigration!